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Re: Reasons to switch from Windows to Linux

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Post by anthk »

walls wrote: post #139
skywal_l wrote: post #57

The first point I think is one of the main arguments. I've been using Ubuntu on a computer I bought in 2007. Worked like a charm (until the PSU blew up a few months back). Linux is a system that outlast its hardware! One can also turn the argument around. What would be the reason to use Windows instead of Linux (if, like most of the people on HN I assume, you are computer literate) ? Games I guess.

Not having to worry that upgrading one app will break things for other apps. Safe screen locking. Not having to spend hours getting hardware working properly but unreliably. Not having to deal with audio issues when you want sound from multiple apps. A responsive interface that doesn't feel like a clunky children's toy from the early 2000s.

>Not having to worry that upgrading one app will break things for other apps.

That's subjective.

>Safe screen locking.

Slock.

>Not having to spend hours getting hardware working properly but unreliably.

No issue with Void. Good luck with Windows and old harware. You don't have your wifi drivers on your laptop reinstall? You are fucked. Yes, SDI Tool Origin, but you need an extra USB drive about 16GB to do so.

>Not having to deal with audio issues when you want sound from multiple apps.

That's bullshit, I solved that in 2004.

>A responsive interface that doesn't feel like a clunky children's toy from the early 2000s.

You mean, Windows 10 with UI latency and everything being felt as if it was ran over a layer of tar? Because, in comparison, MATE flies. And I don't even use a DE.

Re: Reasons to switch from Windows to Linux

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Post by deltree7 »

filmgirlcw wrote: post #186

Disclosure: I'm a developer advocate at Microsoft with a focus on Linux, I am typing this on a laptop running Windows 11 (it also has another SSD that runs Linux), and I'm a diehard Mac user. I hate this sort of SEO-driven clickbait that is trying to inflame wars that frankly, were settled two decades ago. Use Linux. Use Windows. Use macOS. Use Chrome OS. Use OpenBSD. Use Haiku. If you're a complete masochist, use GN…

HN like all other social networks has 5% of really smart, intelligent, objective, well-rounded, nuanced commentators/upvoters.

Rest 95% is no different than Woke/Q/Pitchfork/Trump/AOC people

Re: Reasons to switch from Windows to Linux

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Post by lugged »

Iolaum wrote: post #146
lugged wrote: post #100

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Silverblue is far from ready for primetime. You'll have way less problems with fedora workstation. I wanted to like silverbluez used it on the homelab as a host os for a while, went back to a normal server in the end, way less hassle.

Silverblue is a desktop os not a server. There is the coreos version that is intended for server use. It does need a different paradigm however. On normal fedoara server you are installing packages for applications you want to use, however on an rpm-ostree based system it is intended that you install applications by using containers. Depending on what you want to do, you use the appropriate version. Indeed if one is…

Well I was setting up a desktop machine as a server. The idea of silverblue is great, only it sucks to actually use. Updates are slow, and everything is just needlessly harder.

I get why maintainers want to push flappypacks, I just don't care, it's a shit solution that leaks all over your users. Find a better way to fix your problems.

Re: Reasons to switch from Windows to Linux

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Post by msla »

filmgirlcw wrote: post #186

Disclosure: I'm a developer advocate at Microsoft with a focus on Linux, I am typing this on a laptop running Windows 11 (it also has another SSD that runs Linux), and I'm a diehard Mac user. I hate this sort of SEO-driven clickbait that is trying to inflame wars that frankly, were settled two decades ago. Use Linux. Use Windows. Use macOS. Use Chrome OS. Use OpenBSD. Use Haiku. If you're a complete masochist, use GN…

> There are plenty of Linux distributions with tons of telemetry and spyware (Deepin Linux is literally run by the Chinese government)

Trying to "Both Sides" telemetry and spyware fails because you can use Linux without either, whereas macOS and Windows are inherently married to it and you can't use them without submitting to their respective surveillance regimes. Oddities like Deepin barely matter and can't be used to honestly say Linux is just as bad as a closed-source OS.

Re: Reasons to switch from Windows to Linux

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Post by chirau »

vetinari wrote: post #150
metalliqaz wrote: post #115

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Funny, that's why I still use Windows on my desktop.

To add to the funny story, I have Ryzen 1900X on my desk (literally, the cpu in a small plastic box). Nowadays, those 8 Zen cores clocked at 3.8 GHz are not enough to run Windows, apparently.

This is obviously not true. Which Windows can't you run on that?

Re: Reasons to switch from Windows to Linux

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Post by agumonkey »

gruez wrote: post #188
agumonkey wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This and its dual, not having to restore apps configuration every 3 weeks because some bloatware has the rights to change boot settings etc I like windows for various reasons but it's a constant maintenance chore. Linux is more like a stone wall.. set and forget.

> This and its dual, not having to restore apps configuration every 3 weeks because some bloatware has the rights to change boot settings etc What type of shady apps are you installing that is modifying boot settings?

sorry not boot, more like the various windows user session startup stage

Re: Reasons to switch from Windows to Linux

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Post by agumonkey »

magicalhippo wrote: post #142
agumonkey wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This and its dual, not having to restore apps configuration every 3 weeks because some bloatware has the rights to change boot settings etc I like windows for various reasons but it's a constant maintenance chore. Linux is more like a stone wall.. set and forget.

Interestingly for me it is the other way around. I have Windows 10 on the main PC, KDE Neon on a NUC and "obviously" several Raspberry Pi's doing various things. I spend far more time maintaining the Linux machines, while my Windows box just works. KDE Neon has been much better last year, but still every now and then some conflict pops up which requires manual command line intervention. Clearly YMMV... That said, I'm…

I always found KDE to be too much of a moving target. Maybe I should have mentioned linux mint xfce over a thinkpad without fancy hardware nor fancy software config.

But even then, the same machine with the same programs on windows would require a lot more care to avoid rot.

Re: Reasons to switch from Windows to Linux

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Post by pbhjpbhj »

Tenoke wrote: post #21
jdlyga wrote: post #2

The real reasons I use Linux are mostly out of convenience. For example, updating all my software and OS using one command rather than clicking on 50 updaters.

Linux has its conveniences but I think I definitely spend more times on updates. Some break things and some like Nvidia's drivers can take me ages to actually apply (though with that one the usual trick seems to be to remove --purge nvidia-* first).

Which is nvidia's fault for not supporting Linux properly, right?
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